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<h2>U.S. News and World Report's College Data

</h2>

<h3>Description</h3>

<p>Statistics for a large number of US Colleges from the 1995
issue of US News and World Report.

</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>College</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A data frame with 777 observations on the following 18 variables.
</p>

<dl>
<dt><code>Private</code></dt><dd><p>A factor with levels <code>No</code> and <code>Yes</code>
indicating private or public university</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>Apps</code></dt><dd><p>Number of applications received</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>Accept</code></dt><dd><p>Number of applications accepted</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>Enroll</code></dt><dd><p>Number of new students enrolled</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>Top10perc</code></dt><dd><p>Pct. new students from top 10% of H.S. class</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>Top25perc</code></dt><dd><p>Pct. new students from top 25% of H.S. class</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>F.Undergrad</code></dt><dd><p>Number of fulltime undergraduates</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>P.Undergrad</code></dt><dd><p>Number of parttime undergraduates</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>Outstate</code></dt><dd><p>Out-of-state tuition</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>Room.Board</code></dt><dd><p>Room and board costs</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>Books</code></dt><dd><p>Estimated book costs</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>Personal</code></dt><dd><p>Estimated personal spending</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>PhD</code></dt><dd><p>Pct. of faculty with Ph.D.'s</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>Terminal</code></dt><dd><p>Pct. of faculty with terminal degree</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>S.F.Ratio</code></dt><dd><p>Student/faculty ratio</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>perc.alumni</code></dt><dd><p>Pct. alumni who donate</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>Expend</code></dt><dd><p>Instructional expenditure per student</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>Grad.Rate</code></dt><dd><p>Graduation rate</p>
</dd>
</dl>



<h3>Source</h3>

<p>This dataset was taken from the StatLib library which is
maintained at Carnegie Mellon University. The dataset was used in the
ASA Statistical Graphics Section's 1995 Data Analysis Exposition.

</p>


<h3>References</h3>

<p>James, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T., and Tibshirani, R. (2013)
<em>An Introduction to Statistical Learning with applications in R</em>,
<a href="www.StatLearning.com">www.StatLearning.com</a>,
Springer-Verlag, New York
</p>


<h3>Examples</h3>

<pre>
summary(College)
lm(Apps~Private+Accept,data=College)
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